Show Two PROULEMS SOLVE Labor Federation Conventh Acts Upon Them ONE THE NEGRO QUESTIOI The Other the LongStanding Coi filet Between Socialists and Trat Unionists Question of Organizth Common Laborers Into a Nation Union and of Throwing Out Unions All Organizations Allicj With National or International Unions If They Refuse t > Affiliatl Scranton Pn Dec 12 Much life wal Infused In todays proceedings of thl convention of the American Federatloj of Labor The negro problem in thl South as far as It related to unionIsm union-Ism was unexpectedly injected Into thl proceedings and the longstanding comm flict between the Socialists anti tradl unionists promised to monopolize th attention of the delegates had the So clallsts replied to the trade unionists The questions of organizing commoij laborers Into a national union and o throwing out of unions all organl lions allied with city Slate national ci international unions if they refuse tc affiliate with the Federation of Labor mere also vigorously debated SOCIALIST INCIDENT The Socialist incident came up at th morning session during the discussion of a committee report indorsing most of the recommendations contained in President Qomperss annual report A D Hayes of Philadelphia National president of the Glass Bottle 3lOwrs and Max Hayes of the Cleveland Ccnl tral Labor union the wqllknown Socialist So-cialist made speeches strongly urging the enforcement of laws prohibiting child labor The latter during his rel marks read a long list of decisions rendered by Federal and Stale courts against organized labor GOMPJ3US TAKES A HAND A motion to have the list printed In the minutes brought President Gem pers who was not In the chair at the time to this feet find the delegates were treated to a threeminute passionate pas-sionate speech He said It was unfair to Incorporate the list In the minutes in that way > and suggested that a list of the trade union victories should be printed along with it He concluded by denouncing the attempt to show that trade unionism is a failure and characterized char-acterized it as an outrage A wave of applause swept over the convention asp as-p Gbmpers topk his seat The motion was defeated after W B Wilson of the Miners had spoken along the same lines as Mr Gompers and the recommendationsof the president were adopted except the one referring to a general defense fund The committees suggestion that the fund be raised by national and labor unions instead of by the American Federation of Labor was adopted NEGRO QUESTION SETTLED The negro question came up when the committee on law reported a resolution resolu-tion compelling all local unions affiliated af-filiated with the federation to Join the central labor bodies in their respective localities made the point that the federation fed-eration last week In deciding a contested con-tested seat where the color line was brought into question had authorised the creation of a separate centraV union In Richmond for colored workers work-ers The resolution was debated for more than an hour and by many delegates dele-gates and was finally defeated PROTEST AGAINST APPOINTMENT J H Bowman of Chicago presented a resolution instructing time president of the federation to protest against the confirmation by the United States Senate Sen-ate of the appointment of Frank E Baker ns United States Circuit Judge In Indiana The reason for the protest la that Baker Is a son of Judge John II Baker of Indianapolis who had granted Injunctions against some union workmen work-men |